On 09/09/2015 06:25 PM, Monte Goulding wrote:
Script only stacks work in 6. Not sure which version they were
introduced but but in 6.7.7 there’s a bucket load of script only
stacks in the IDE for libraries.
Huh. So they are. At least as far back as 6.7.5 anyway.
Somehow I missed that fact.
The history of script only stacks goes back to at least 6.7.0, maybe
even later maintenance releases of 6.6.x.
The motivation was iOS SDK support. At that point there seemed to be
constant changes being required to the iOS standalone builder to
continue to support the bleeding edge iOS SDK - it was the most updated
IDE component at the time.
As, at that point, we had essentially 2/3 IDE branches we had to keep in
sync, it was becoming a real headache to manage the changes and ensure
that the revSaveAsIOSStandalone stack was kept in-sync, up to date and
working in all branches.
I hacked in something to allow a stack to be a text file since that was
all (for all intents as purposes) what the revSaveAsIOSStandalone stack
contained - a single stack script. It was a bit rough at first - I was
trying to solve an immediate problem rather than produce a fully fledged
feature.
Then someone else in the company noticed it for some other reason, and
started using it, fed back so I could fix a few issues in it.
I was always slightly concerned about the data-loss potential - the
reason we never presented it as a 'supported feature' in the first
instance because I wasn't sure whether the engine should be more
draconian about their use. i.e. Should the engine stop you from creating
objects / setting custom props on such a stack?
As it turns out, however, my concerns about that aspect turned out not
be concerns at all. The utility of script only stacks just as they are
more than justified their existence and they've been growing in
usefulness ever since.
I'm still not sure my decision to require a UTF-8 BOM at the start to
differentiate from a native platform encoding file was a good idea
though. I probably should have just assumed UTF-8 regardless. (Hindsight
being 20/20 of course).
Warmest Regards,
Mark.
--
Mark Waddingham ~ m...@livecode.com ~ http://www.livecode.com/
LiveCode: Everyone can create apps
_______________________________________________
use-livecode mailing list
use-livecode@lists.runrev.com
Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription
preferences:
http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
